Re: Alternative for defconfig

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On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> * Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> [100611 19:03]:
>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Laurent Pinchart
>> <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > My understanding is that Linus will remove all ARM defconfigs in 2.6.36,
>> > unless someone can convince him not to.
>>
>> Huh? I thought he was only threatening to remove them[1]. I don't
>> think he said he was going to do that without any alternative in
>> place.
>>
>> My suggestion[2] was to have minimal defconfigs so that we could do
>> $ cp arch/arm/configs/omap3_beagle_baseconfig .config
>> $ echo "" | make ARCH=arm oldconfig
>>
>> [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/994194
>> [2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/995412
>
> Sounds like the defconfigs will be going though and we'll use
> some Kconfig based system that's still open. I believe Russell
> said he is not taking any more defconfig patches, so we should
> not merge them either.
>
> Anyways, we already have multi-omap mostly working for both
> mach-omap1 and mach-omap2.

Cool, that's a much better approach :)

Although it still doesn't solve the problem of default configuration
for certain boards... I doubt many people know how to enable USB,
audio, and so on. We would probably need some place to share
configuration samples and documentation.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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